South Hebron Hills - most of the entrances to the Palestinian settlements are closed
On the way to Mufaqara to the Hamamada family, we scanned Route 60 again.
Same situation since 7.10. Most of the entrances to the Palestinian settlements are closed and those that are open are monitored by soldiers. As I wrote in the last few weeks, there are some such as the entrance from Qilqis to Hebron, or Yatta or the Zif junction, the back-to-back system is in place to allow people or goods to reach the district for their belongings. Or stone and dirt blocks, from a simple existential necessity, break-ins and people moving and shaking under the watchful eye of soldiers.
At Zif grocery store, we bought again basic food items and brought them to Fadel and his family.
We brought hearing aids to Fadel according to his request, second hand, which Yael Zoran immediately obtained. He says there is someone who will fit them in Yatta. Let's hope that these will make it a little easier for him.
He tells about an incident from a month ago, exactly on 27.9, when the police took him for questioning in Kiryat Arba on the pretext that a new settler named Avihai complained that Fadel had threatened to kill him. Fadel asked how could he have threatened him when he is not able to come close to him? A good question. But this was enough for the Israeli Police to issue an order preventing Fadel from moving further from his home than 100 m. for 5 months, that is, he cannot go down to his fields or graze his sheep.
"And if they come to me and attack me in my house?" Fadel asks.
"Then complain to the police," say police officers who do nothing to protect him.
"And if the sheep have to be taken to pasture to feed them?"
"Leave the sheep at home and bring them the food to the pen." He is answered. "After five months we will decide whether to allow you to move around your territories again. We will see how you behave during these 5 months of conditions."
In the meantime, Avihai has hilltop youths who come with their herds, shout words that he does not want to repeat and make obscene gestures. Sometimes they are two and sometimes five or six. He does not dare to say anything to them and, of course does not try to take pictures.
His wife talks about a drone that hovers over them almost every day and takes pictures. Yesterday a settler came with his flock to their fields and drove them away with their sheep. The settlers circle around them all the time, day and night with ATVs to scare, deter and constantly remind who is the master of the land here. Here too, they are encircled, suffocated, they can only move certain distances and around them another truck that became a residence, another trailer, another shack.
Adv. Neta Amar and Qamar Mishraki take care of all the matters of their lands, the demolition order that is on their "home" and the threats of deportation.
On the way back, we saw the school teachers walking back to their home in Yatta, on the blocked road across from the At--Tuwani entrance road.
Have we already said occupation routine?